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Nick Carter Accused of Sexual Assault by Singer Melissa Schuman

23:05, Wednesday, 22 November, 2017

Melissa Schuman, former member of the 2000s girl group Dream, has accused Nick Carter of sexual assault. Hollywood’s Sexual Misconduct Scandals In a lengthy post on her blog, Melissa Explains It All, on Saturday, November 18, the “He Loves U Not” singer, 33, claimed that the Backstreet Boys crooner, 37, assaulted her when she was 18 and he was 22. Schuman wrote that she and a friend were invited to Carter’s apartment during a day off from the movie they were filming together, The Hollow. Shuman, who said she was a virgin at the time, claimed that Carter then brought her into a bathroom and they started kissing.“My thought was the only way to get out was to get him to finish what he had started,” Shuman wrote in her blog post. “That’s where I saw myself, my reflection, watching myself do something that I was sickened by. Watching myself be assaulted, forced to engage in an act against my will.” Shuman then alleges that the “I Want It That Way” singer took her into a bedroom and assaulted her. She claimed that she feared jeopardizing her career if she spoke out about the alleged encounter. Shuman wrote that she considered pressing charges against Carter but was told she “would likely be buried in humiliation, accused of being fame hungry, and it would ultimately hurt me professionally as well as publicly.”